So yeah, people talked about blogposts and stuff. I have a cold, so I postponed my myriad other duties for this little piece. Was fun though!
Bleach 568: The continued erosion of Rukias credibility.
Lets start off with more crappy lolscience! I wouldn't harp on this, but Kubo can't even keep his own lolscience straight.
Oh noes, Rukia overexerted herself! Reducing her temperature to absolute zero gave her frostbite and her finger is close to breaking off! Or a papercut, that works too.
And now, nerves aren't cells, and are affected by fear, and affecting them causes Rukia to freeze up, as opposed to when she's literally at
absolute zero and moves around super fast. Also she is so cold that her cells cannot feel fear, yet she is clearly freaking out that her body is
uncooperative, and now my head is spinning. Thats enough lolscience for today.
As Nödt is free! I guess Rukia didn't freeze him solid as much as cover him with a thin plating of ice. Come on, Shrimpos dude had to resort to Vollständig to break out, and Shrimpo didn't have any training at Kamis lookout! And because Rukia doesn't look inept enough, As Nödt blabbers that the only thing he fears is being scolded by Yahoo Bach. So not only does this negate Rukias finisher, it ALSO negates her smugass quip from last week.
"I bet the only thing you fear…is things that cannot feel fear!"
"Actually, I fear my master"
"Oh.
...Really?"
"Yeah. Compared to him, this isn't that scary"
"...ummmmm"
You make yourself look really stupid Rukia.
And then, As Nödt goes into Vollständig mode, which of course requires an entire page to be conveyed properly. Okay, firstly credit where its due: Nödt looks pretty cool in full power mode. The usual Bleach lankiness adds to his creep factor, yet his face is markedly different from any other Bleach character. I approve. But really, doe this need so much space? In all likelihood, the dude dies in a week, two tops. The gesture of giving him an an entire bigass page to show off with 4 pages of buildup has no impact given how insignifant he is. And he does it over and over with these quincy mooks. But Bleachs pacing is nothing new.
About Vollständig: Do you remember this Kubo? Probably not. I know I hardly did. But this is a moment some 14 chapters ago where you had a whole bunch of quincies go into full power simultaneously. It was a moment signifying that "Shit just got real, the enemy is going all out!"
Now this moment coincided with Bambiettas fight, where she got swatted following her transformation. But what about the rest of the quincies?
Roboquincy and Quincy Zuko were clearly shown transforming. This accomplishes them getting executed.
The other transformants were never shown, but it was strongly implied that at least the bankai-stealers (such as As Nödt) were in trouble, and 3/4ths of them we did see transform. But since then theres never been a quincy already in Angel Mode when his fight started. Mask had it deactivated at first, and then an entire fucking night passed, and now we have to see As Nödt go through the transformation again.
Riddle me this Kubo: WHAT PURPOSE DOES THAT SCENE RETAIN? It accomplished NOTHING! At the time we thought that the pace of the war had bizarrely accelerated, but we STILL get to sit through the quincies going through standard mode–>get in trouble-->Angel Mode-->Dominate for a while-->defeated by supermove.
This is why I say Bleach is the worst. Go back a few months, and Kubos Goldfish memory makes sure that no scene carries any weight or makes any sense.
And another thing about Vollständig. You know how everyone keeps groaning that the Quincies should just use their Spirit Vacuum move? Yeah, that is literally the entire point of the transformation. As seen and mentioned with both Ishida and Kirge (Or Fritz as I prefer him), the point of the move is: the quincies remove the shackles on their natural reishi absorption (before manifested by gloves), and their power soars as they Glorp up everything around them. After Kirge went all out he sucked up the goddamn Hueco Mondo sand, and this was not his own personal thing, thats what the Vollständig does. As Mayuri said when facing an SS-absorbing Ishida, he was "exterting complete dominance over spiritrons".
But now Kubo has forgotten the original purpose of the technique. Now its just another transformation, another statboost which requires no reishi-absorbing hassle, and gives you funky new souped up versions of your bullshit very un-Quincy powers. In this case: paralyzing hypnozis, and creating a cage made out of goddamn eyeballs. "Quincies fight by absorbing energy from their surroundings and shaping it into energy weapons". Indeed, eyeball domes, the greatest energy weapon of all. As Nödt has taken it so far that he actually has no offensive physical moves. None. he has his mental fear attacks annnnnd thats it. You know what could be an effective battle strategy Mr Nazi Scarecrow? If you shot an arrow in your enemys face while they were paralyzed with fear. Just saying.
Then I guess Rukias mind is about to implode from the weight of unpleasant memories or something. Its vague and confusing. But holy crap, Kubo presented this terribly. We are supposed to see Rukias saddest memories and her freaking out from fear, and what do we get? Gin breaking her will? Being abandoned by her sister? Losing her childhood friends? Imminent execution? Fighting Aaroniero? KAIENS MOTHERFUCKING DEATH? Nnnnnnnnnnooooooooope!!
- Hollow Ichigo! OK, thats kind of freaky, but I don't even remember when Rukia faced him as any sort of threat.
- Orihime being mistreated! ...Which I think Rukia never witnessed. At all.
- Ichigo staring impassively!
- Nii-sama staring impassively!
My god what terrible memories these are. Good thing Kubo didn't include a panel of Renji picking his nose, he might've traumatized the readers.
And of course, at the end she is bailed out by her precious niisan. Gag me. When Zommari used her as a pathetic emotion baiting ragdoll, at least she came off a sorta draw with Aaroniero. Here, theres no such luck. At least Renji got a win, but final tally for Rukia remains:
- D. Roy, most forgettable of Grimmjows posse¨
- Sand hollow thingy that showed up for a single chapter.
Chapter rating:
Continuity abuse: **
Pretentiousness: ***
Bullshit: *****
Character abuse:******
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@Gliblord:
I can work with that
For the record, I'd clap my hands with excitement over some Naruto movie reviews.
Naruto Filler Arc reviews I wouldn't wish upon anyone whatsoever